Manic Street Preachers, Everything Must Go (10th Anniversary Edition)

Richey Edwards' 1995 disappearance meant he didn't play on Everything Must Go, but the Manics' fourth and most successful album (sumptuously repackaged with live/rehearsal tracks and DVDs) is synonymous with the guitarist. Nervously regrouping as a trio, emotional catharsis propelled the most glorious songs of the Manics' career. Out went punk assaults and eyeliner, in came sensible haircuts and strings-laden anthems. However, their potency remained intact as songs like the welfare state homage A Design for Life captured yet pricked the bubble of Cool Britannia's empty euphoria. Edwards bequeathed various lyrics including the disturbed and inspired Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky, about caged animals. That song could have served as a metaphor for the band's more polished sound, and the soaring title track finds them fretting about betrayal ("I just hope that you can forgive us"). And yet, Everything Must Go achieved the zenith of the Welshmen's original ambition: to conquer the mainstream with anger, art and soul.